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Daily Fantasy Sports Declared Illegal by New York Attorney General
Daily fantasy sports (DFS) is no longer legal in New York following an investigation by the state's lead legal attorney, market leaders DraftKings and FanDuel both receiving cease-and-desist letters on Tuesday. "Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy...
Joe McKeehen Takes Down WSOP Main Event Final Table in Dominant Fashion, Wins $7.6 Million as New Poker Champ
Joe McKeehen is the last man standing. 6,420 players ponied up $10,000 in cash back in July to enter the 2015 WSOP Main Event. After 10 days of competition, McKeehen had every last chip in play and is now officially the 2015...
Station Casinos’ IPO Faces Union Challenge Over Deutsche Bank Libor-fixing Scandal
Station Casinos’ stock market ambitions were facing a challenge from Las Vegas’ most powerful union this week. The Culinary Workers Union (Local 266) has a longstanding beef with the casino company, which is anti-union, and is attempting to derail its application for...
Amaya Slashes 2015 Economic Forecast, Stock Price Tumbles
Amaya Inc. is cutting its 2015 full-year financial projections for revenues and net earnings, an adjustment that will naturally also lower expectations for per share profits. The parent company to PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker is reducing its year-end revenue projections by...
WSOP November Nine Day Two Recap: Stern, Cannuli, Steinberg Out the Door
For the second consecutive day, the WSOP November Nine final table started off with a bang, and then became a bit dull. There were some fireworks throughout the three hours of otherwise mostly unexciting play. The first bust out came on the...
Amaya Purchases BetStars, DFS Would Fold If Classified as Gambling, Analyst Claims
Amaya has been on a spending spree since last June when it opened its checkbook and stroke a $4.9 billion check for PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, but the gaming conglomerate isn't putting all of its chips in one hand as the...
WSOP 2015 November Nine Day One Reveals an Evening of Tanking and Passive Play
The 2015 November Nine kicked off with a whimper, not a bang. On the first day of play Sunday night, the focus was on players tanking and acting as if they had little interest in actually playing poker. Patrick Chan came to...
Pro-RAWA Kindt Calls for US Ban on Slot Machines
John Kindt, Professor of Business and Legal Policy at the University of Illinois and vocal anti-gambling campaigner, has called on the US government to “re-criminalize” electronic gambling machines (EGMs). Writing an op-ed for the Southern Illinoisan, Kindt, who recently took the stand...
Maryland Casino Revenues Increase 9.2 Percent in October
The Maryland casino industry is flourishing, the state's Lottery and Gaming Control Commission releasing financial data for last month that proves citizens and nearby residents are enjoying the conveniences of having gambling venues located in the Mid-Atlantic region. Casino revenue statewide totaled...
Revel Atlantic City Could Become “Fire Risk” Refugee Camp
Glenn Straub, the eccentric Florida real-estate developer who bought the stricken Revel Casino in Atlantic City earlier this year, is offering to turn it into a temporary refugee center. Straub paid $82 million for the $2.4 billion property after the initial winner...
